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Photographs from Shaker Hts., Ohio

November 9-14, 1996 in the Great Lakes

The following pictures were scanned from photographs provided by
Lorra Laven (see second photograph) who lives in Shaker Hts, Ohio in eastern
Cuyahoga county. The photos
were taken on November 10,13 and 14th, 1996. Lorra has also provided an
entertaining and thorough
eyewitness log of this case study.

The wet snowfall from a cyclone on Nov 9-10, 1996
and the subsequent heavy LES event,
devastated trees and shrubs in the "Heights" suburbs east & southeast of
Cleveland, Ohio. The clean-up costs in Shaker Hts. alone were estimated
at $ 2.5 million dollars - the cleanup is nearly complete as of early
July, 1997.

Snowfall in Shaker Hts. was estimated by spotters at about 50" with
perhaps 36-38" on the ground at any one time. The snow fell in intense
bands with variable breaks between bands. Bright sunshine was intermittently
observed on the first four days of the storm - as was thunder and
lightning! The greatest one-hour accumulation reported from this
location was 3.5" on Monday evening Nov 11, 1996.

The consistency of the snowfall was denser compared to typical
lake-effect snow. The lake was very warm in this early season storm and
surface temperatures never fell much below freezing. Denser
frozen precipitation particles such as snow grains,
graupel, and snow pellets (a dense aggregate of snow crystals and graupel)
were all common during the storm suggesting the
clouds contained an unusually high amount of liquid water and possibly
very strong updrafts (compared to other lake-effect storms).